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NYPD and FDNY Talk About A War With Iraq

Friday, March 14, 2003

As the debate over whether to go war with Iraq drags on, New Yorkers are expressing themselves in the streets and in the corridors of City Hall. But the people who were on the front line on September 11th have NOT been heard from. WNYC's Beth Fertig went to listen ...

Joey

Friday, March 14, 2003

By Sharon Lerner : author of "The War on Moms: On Life in a Family Unfriendly Nation" and senior fellow at Demos

Click here to view see pictures of Camp TLC

You may remember Joey DiPaolo from 1990, when parents protested his attendance at a Brooklyn middle school. Throughout his childhood, Joey spoke publicly about AIDS and his own HIV-infection. His mission was simple: to prevent future infections, stop discrimination ...

Siomara

Friday, March 14, 2003

By Sharon Lerner : author of "The War on Moms: On Life in a Family Unfriendly Nation" and senior fellow at Demos

Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic more than two decades ago, thousands of babies in this country have been born HIV-positive. These infants acquired the virus from their mothers while still in the womb or during childbirth. Many died at a young age. But an estimated 10,000 young people ...

Reactions to Broadway Strike Resolution

Friday, March 14, 2003

By Judith Kampfner

The Broadway musicals strike was settled this week. WNYC's Judith Kampfner spoke with one musician and one producer to find out what to listen for as the negotiated changes are put into play.

Ashley

Friday, March 14, 2003

By Sharon Lerner : author of "The War on Moms: On Life in a Family Unfriendly Nation" and senior fellow at Demos

This week WNYC is presenting a series of reports on young people who have been HIV-positive since birth, having contracted the virus from their mothers. In the second part of our series, Sharon Lerner reports on the medical advances, human kindness, and luck that have kept thousands of these children ...

Matthew Barney at the Guggenheim

Thursday, March 13, 2003

By David Krasnow : David Krasnow, Senior Editor Studio 360

The Guggenheim Museum has just unveiled one of the art world's most anticipated spectacles: an exhibition of Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle. The show includes sculptures, photographs, banners, installations, and feature films. It also features the use of non-traditional unstable materials...like vaseline.

During the installation, David Krasnow watched and listened as ...

Poet Philip Levine

Philip Levine Reads Galway Kinnell

Thursday, March 13, 2003

At about this time of year as the green markets are just beginning to offer local produce, Pulitzer prize winning Poet Philip Levine is reminded of this poem by Galway Kinnell. Philip Levine divides his time between New York City and Fresno, California . He teaches at New ...

Growing Up Positive

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

By Sharon Lerner : author of "The War on Moms: On Life in a Family Unfriendly Nation" and senior fellow at Demos

A special one-hour presentation of Growing Up Positive will air Sunday April 6 at 4pm on 93.9 FM and 3pm on AM 820

Siomara
Monday March 17 during Morning Edition
Siomara is one of thousands of children who ...

Tentative Agreement Reached

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Broadway musicians and show producers reached a tentative agreement this morning, an agreement which may end the strike that shut down 18 musicals since last week. There will be a joint announcement later this morning attended by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The mayor opened up Gracie Mansion to the two sides, ...

War In The Classroom

Monday, March 10, 2003

It's impossible to avoid the topic of war lately. WNYC's Beth Fertig visited two Brooklyn high schools to hear how war is being discussed in the classroom.

NJ Cuts The Arts

Monday, March 10, 2003

By Bob Hennelly

Not since World War II have so many state governments found themselves so deeply in debt. In New Jersey, Governor McGreevey says a multi-billion dollar budget gap left him no choice but to cut funding to the arts. These cuts amount to less than one tenth of one percent of ...

Recyclers Ask, What About Glass?

Monday, March 10, 2003

A joint mayoral and council task force is expected to issue a report today on how the city can improve recycling. The task force was formed last year, when the city suspended glass and plastic recycling, in an attempt to save money. Plastic recycling is likely to start again this ...

Commentary: How We Face Fear

Friday, March 07, 2003

Even the calmest New Yorkers have plenty to worry about these days: the economy, the threat of war and -- perhaps most frightening -- the possibility of another terrorist attack. All of this uneasiness has writer Lisa Kron remembering the way she faced fear as a kid.

Lisa Kron:
I'm lying ...

Fare Increase Voted In

Friday, March 07, 2003

By Marianne McCune : Reporter, WNYC News

New York City's subway and bus riders will have to pay 2 dollars a ride beginning this May, up from a dollar fifty. Cuts won't be as drastic for unlimited and discount cards. Tolls on bridges and tunnels will also increase, but drivers were not the ones who showed up ...

Mayor Arranges Talks To Settle Broadway Strike

Friday, March 07, 2003

Mayor Michael Bloomberg personally intervened to get musicians and producers back to the bargaining table on Monday for the first time since an economically damaging strike shut down Broadway musicals four days ago. Both sides will negotiate at Gracie Mansion around the clock starting Monday night, according to Bloomberg spokesman ...

Repertory Theater at BAM

Thursday, March 06, 2003

By Judith Kampfner

The Brooklyn Academy of Music is into the closing stretch of an eight-week run, their longest run for a visiting company. They are presenting The Donmar Warehouse company form London directed by Sam Mendes. The company performs Shakespeare and Chekhov plays in rotation. This is an example of a neglected ...

Off To War: Andrew Zilnik

Thursday, March 06, 2003

By Marianne McCune : Reporter, WNYC News

Military reserve units all over the country are being called to serve. One of the men JUST called up is a 24-year old from just outside of Binghamton New York. You may remember him -WNYC's Marianne McCune spent a day and a half on the USS Nassau as it came ...

Off To War: Andrew Zilnik

Thursday, March 06, 2003

By Marianne McCune : Reporter, WNYC News

Military reserve units all over the country are being called to serve. One of the men JUST called up is a 24-year old from just outside of Binghamton New York. You may remember him -WNYC's Marianne McCune spent a day and a half on the USS Nassau as ...

Fare Hike

Thursday, March 06, 2003

The MTA approved a fifty cent hike in subway and bus fares today, the first transit hike in seven years. Subway and bus fares will now be $2. The hikes are set to take effect between May 1 and May 15.

Monthly unlimited-ride MetroCards:
from $63 to $70

Weekly cards:
from ...

Commentary: Stolen Prison Painting Highlights Changes

Wednesday, March 05, 2003

In 1965 Salvador Dali donated a painting of Christ on the cross to the New York City Department of Corrections. Since then, the painting has been hanging around Riker's Island. Until last week, that is, when someone stole it. The disappearance of the Dali has commentator and public defender David ...

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